Rational Synergy

Accelerate innovation of global software development on a unified platform

IBM® Rational® Synergy is a task-based, software configuration management (SCM) solution that brings together global, distributed development teams on a unified platform. Rational Synergy provides capabilities that help software and systems development teams work and collaborate faster and easier.

Provides advanced baseline and release management capabilities to help maintain quality and avoid duplication of effort.

Helps support software reuse and component-based development for increased return on investment (ROI) and cost savings.

Delivers a highly scalable platform that integrates with other Rational software products and IBM Business Partner products.

Unifies global, distributed teams

The high-performance, wide area network (WAN) access allows distributed teams to carry out operations at local area network (LAN)-like speeds, increasing productivity and reducing the overhead of having multiple servers.

The single SCM repository manages all artifacts related to software development, including source code, documents, and the final software executables and libraries.

Software changes and tasks are synchronized in real time, so dispersed teams can collaborate in a cohesive fashion over the global delivery framework.

With fast backup performance for IBM Informix® databases, downtimes are reduced and maintenance activities can be planned more efficiently. This helps achieve availability around the clock with overlapping time zones and agile practices.

Automates processes and tasks

The common language of TBCM helps users interact with the project and each other in a consistent manner.

Work assignments and tasks can be added to multiple release streams, simplifying parallel development.

The task-based approach helps you customize the standard workflow so it can match the team’s preferred methodology.

Process customization helps you achieve the development methodology—from agile or hybrid to industry-specific—so you can realize process maturity and capability.

For your convenience, the tabs below identify the supported releases of Rational Synergy
from which you can select detailed system requirement reports for different contexts (by Operating System, by component). Note that clicking a link will always generate a new, up-to-date report.

IBM® Rational® Synergy V7.2.1 represents the next generation of task-based, software configuration management (SCM). The new capabilities available in this version help software and systems development teams deliver output faster and easier.

Rational Synergy V7.2.1 provides:

Performance improvements

New cache server improves the client side performance for users who work in remote co-located teams.

Cache server improves overall performance by caching static objects, which don’t change over a period of time.

Synergy core server performance is improved by either using local shared cache for clients in a specific subnet or by using prepopulated or copied cache.

Improved administration & platform currency

Allows administrators to preview a transfer package before the generation, and is now available through the CLI (command line interface).

Complies with new cryptographic standard sp800-131a.

Provides documentation updates for Installation in a Windows secure environment.

Usability and Serviceability improvements

The splash screen dialog now shows the progress bar, providing the various stages of the startup activity. When experiencing problems, users are able to access the documentation of the concerned step , detecting possible causes for the failure.

Improved error messages with unique error codes published on the support site help to diagnose issues in a predictable and consistent manner.

Attribute Driven Color Schemes help to distinguish objects through customizable icons which serve as visible cues and users can incorporate their standard icons which help to bring consistency to data representation across the enterprise.

Broader Ecosystem

Rational Synergy now integrates with Rational Team Concert™ (RTC) in a similar way it integrates with Rational Change.

Users can now launch RTC, query for work item, link Synergy tasks with Work Item from within Synergy client or from RTC Eclipse client.

Users have a choice to use RTC for its collaborative change management, planning, tracking, agile and dash board capabilities

A new migrate utility helps customers to move baselines and projects into RTC if they intend to use it for configuration management.

The migrate utility helps in transferring history and meta-data in a partial manner